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National Infantry Museum
Fort Benning, GA (USA)

Outside: Vehicle and Artillery Park

article and photos by Russ Lockwood


There was an artillery park outside, with a salute-style passing "under" the barrels, so to speak, as you walk from the parking lot to the museum front.

Most of the guns were not labeled. Not being an expert, I'll go ahead and call these German Pak 75mm Anti-tank guns, but I wouldn't put money on it.

The 155mm artillery piece. An unknown piece sits behind it in the shadow of the museum.

No WWI campaign is complete without the Field Sterilizer. This decontamination machine rid uniforms and bedding of lice and other insects. It was horse-drawn and manufactured by American Sterilyzer Co of Erie, PA, in 1917.

Across the Street

There's a monument commemorating the liberation of a POW camp on Luzon, Phillippines during WWII via an airborne drop by the 11th Airborne.

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